BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Imagine this. On your next grocery trip (wearing a face mask of course), you pick up an item listed on your shopping list. You put it in your bag. And then you walk out of the store to accomplish the rest of your day’s errands. In this instance, no crime was...
Filipinos have reason to expect a “better Christmas” this year as the government aims to achieve “herd containment” in September followed by “herd immunity” in November. Thus declared Secretary Carlito Galvez, the country’s vaccine czar, in a report during President Duterte’s...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The Financial Times, together with Nikkei Asia and Statista recently came out with its ranking of high-growth companies in the Asia Pacific Region. To be included in the list, a company must meet the following criteria — generated revenue of at least $1 million...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara This is but one of the big questions that I think about constantly as a legislator, considering that our home, the Philippines, a low-middle income country, stills deals with abject poverty, gaping inequalities, widespread hunger and malnutrition, homelessness, and...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara We, Filipinos, are not known to easily give up. And in the face of adversity, we as a community are able to overcome either by helping each other out or receiving help from our kapwa. We have witnessed this in the past week or so with the emergence of the viral...
THINKING PINOY RJ Nieto The legendary Efren “Bata” Reyes isn’t the best billiards player. Do you know who’s better than him? The audience, the “ miron. ” No matter what decision he makes on the pool table, there’s a miron who’ll say Efren should’ve done this and that. To the...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW), led by Senate President Sotto, conducted two extensive hearings on the African Swine Fever (ASF) which continues to be a perennial threat not only to the local hog industry, but also the country’s food security....
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Earlier this week, the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) signed a joint memorandum circular (JMC)...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The recent Decoding Global Talent survey by JobStreet has revealed some interesting employment trends amid the pandemic. For one, there is a global downtrend observed in people’s willingness to work abroad. Where in the 2018 edition of the survey 57 percent of...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Last February, in anticipation of International Women’s Day on March 8 and National Women’s Month here in the Philippines, Grant Thornton International released its 2021 Women in Business report. The Philippines topped the said study for the second...
The Philippines could attain a "better normal soon" as the government continued to implement its vaccination program to boost protection against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) Nograles has expressed confidence...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The COVID-19 pandemic has caused much human suffering. But it has also catalyzed notable feats of human cooperation, ingenuity, and selflessness. Or as we put it succinctly—“bayanihan.” For instance, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and select...
